Watch #RECOVERY Co-Chief Investigators @peterhorby.bsky.social and @martinlandray.bsky.social discuss the trial and hear from Elaine, one of the more than 50,000 people who have participated in the RECOVERY trial to date 🎥 buff.ly/4UmMLkL

I’d put it differently:

A failed trial is one that fails to produce an answer you can rely on.

A failed intervention is one that a trial shows has no meaningful benefit (or even some harm).

If a trial shows the intervention is useless, it is still a good trial!

Participating in #clinicaltrials is a great way to further our scientific knowledge and help find effective treatments for severe flu. To find out more about participating in the RECOVERY trial, visit the trial’s website: https://buff.ly/2W03aXM

Professor Sir @martinlandray.bsky.social, Joint Chief Investigator for RECOVERY, explains what makes the #RECOVERYTrial appropriate for investigating flu treatments below. 😷👇
@medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk

And your answer was?

@peterhorby.bsky.social

That’s a shame. I wish her well in whatever she does next.

The www.goodtrials guidance for Good Randomized Trials has now been adopted into WHO Best Practices for Clinical Trials

iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...

And for the principles of good regulation take a look at goodtrials.org where we set out what good guidance should look like
- scientific & ethical principles
- concise
- co-developed with breadth of expertise & experience
- versatile to suit a broad range of contexts

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